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Briary   Listen
adjective
briary  adj.  
1.
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; of plants or animals.
Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny.





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"Briary" Quotes from Famous Books



... But there was challenge made whose it might be; And if some nice and liquorous appetite Desired more dainty dish of rare delight, They scaled the stored crab with clasped knee, Till they had sated their delicious eye: Or search'd the hopeful thicks of hedgy rows, For briary berries, or haws, or sourer sloes: Or when they meant to fare the fin'st of all, They lick'd oak-leaves besprint with honey fall. As for the thrice three-angled beech nutshell, Or chestnut's armed husk, and hide kernel, No squire ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan


Words linked to "Briary" :   briery, thorny, spiny, prickly, barbellate, briar, burred, setose, bristly, setaceous, burry, bristled, armed, barbed


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